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Fig trees and a NY winter
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- Where do you live and garden?
- I live in a small Cape Cod home, and I garden in my yard
- How long have you been growing food?
- 1-3 years
- Dream garden travel destination:
- Pennsylvania/Upstate NY
- Favorite foods:
- Pizza and Pasta (and I love growing the Italian Essentials: Tomatoes, Basil, Parsley, etc...)
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Nurture, Nature, and Hoping for the Best
Posted on August 30, 2008 at 11:49pm —
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- At 5:11pm on January 19, 2009,
sorn said…
- Hi...I'm from Thailand...come and visit Thailand...I love your garden too..it's look nice..the weather here is cool!!!
- At 3:33am on December 12, 2008,
Ron said… - Hi Lisa
The weather is a biy lopsided nowdays and it seems evident that the seasons have changed from their usual types. We, for instance, had a dreadful winter - dry and too warm!
Summer should have arrived in mid September/October but it has only started in December. The rains came late and this stunted the crop growth so the February heat will kill off most of the product - presuming that the Feb heat will arrive on time!
Read my blogs and you will see my comments and that of those that joined in-we seem to have problems all over and international news has it that a lot of effort is to be spent on comating climate change. It seems evident that we will have to adapt to the new season and that is one of the reasons for my going over to container gardening.
It seems as if container gardening will be the answere for micro-growers such as myself and this will also enable me to create a permanent supply of herbs/vegies that are used more often but excluding the larger vegies.
I love gardening but dont have the time on my hands as hired help has all but driven me insane! The dig up and destroy almost everything!!!!!!!!
My garden is too small for trees but I intend to plant them on the pavement as I have a corner house. When grouped together with other trees and plants small trees are very beautiful and do much to soften the picture as such. This will naturally kill two birds with one stone as it will add fruit to the menue!
- At 7:01am on December 9, 2008,
Ron said…
- Hi again Lisa.
Figs are great! I love them. I enjoy the green fig preserve the most but fig jam is OK too. I don't have a recipe but I know it takes plenty of shugar but it's worth every bite!
Figs are best picked when "almost" soft - tender but not dripping with the sweet fluid that they give off. This fluid also attracts fruitflies so it's best to pick them a little early then.
I spent a lot of time in our fig trees as a kid and the one was huge - must have been very old as it rivaled the roof of our double story house - the top, floppy ends and leaves that is.
The other was this purple little sugar lump that was approximately 8 ft in hieght.
- At 5:30am on December 8, 2008,
Ron said…
- Hi Lisa.
I noticed your figs and wondered what they are called. My dad had two fig trees when I was young and one of them looked just like these. I prefered them to the other figs but they did not get very big. What are they used for-other than the odd nibble?
- At 10:23am on November 15, 2008,
Katherine Turcotte said… - Hi Lisa! I am in NJ and love upstate NY - PA is kind of expensive - have you been up near Watkins Glen NY near the Finger Lakes? Big old farmhouses for such cheap prices. I have nice land here, not much but I do have the white deer so it is okay for now.
I just started an herb group if you want to join. Come on over and check out my blog too
http://www.enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com
- At 7:45am on August 26, 2008,
maria said… - i just love this website....thanks
- At 9:17am on August 16, 2008,
LIsa said…
- Hi Kashif! What do you garden?
- At 8:41am on August 16, 2008,
kashif ahmad said… - hi LIsa,how are you?It is very interesting.You have done great.keep shareing
- At 5:26pm on August 14, 2008,
LIsa said…
- Thanks, Ian!! I definitely will.
- At 4:21pm on August 14, 2008,
Ian said… - Hey Lisa,
Start a discussion about it. Just go to Forum on the navbar at the top of the page and then start a discussion. CAll it something like "overwifntering friut trees and ask the question...Then sit back wjilst 800 people give you their own version of what you should do.... LOL It really works though.
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